Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
Psalms
PoetryAnd of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Exodus
Law / MosesMan did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
2 Kings
HistoryJudah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
Psalms
PoetryShe is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielStand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
Psalms
PoetryBecause of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Matthew
GospelsYe shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.